I am forever indebted to Kevin Bacon because without Footloose I would be entirely unaware of the three white guy dance moves I can pull off at weddings without looking like a complete and total spaz (only half a spaz), so even though I prefer my movies sans dancing and musical numbers Jimmy Fallon successfully targeted yet another direct hit to my nostalgia center last night with Kevin Bacon doing a full-on Footloose dance number entrance complete with emo-y wall-leaning and bottle-slinging.

Of course K-Bakes still has it and I choose to believe a dance double was no way involved at any point in the filming of this number. I haven’t been this proud of the man since he hung dong in Wild Things.

That sound you hear at the end is John Lithgow’s brain exploding because DANCING SHOULD BE OUTLAWED.

Ever seen “The Wild Life”? Long forgotten OOP 80’s teen comedy. Chris has an even bigger role in it than he does in Footloose (though he’s still not the main star, Eric Stolz is). Chris is HILARIOUS in it. The sight of him doing situps with a helmet with barbell plates attached to his head is something that cannot be unseen.

Oh, and Eddie Van Halen did the score. Did I mention this was made in 1984 when Roth was still in the band and the music was still good?

I watched the first few minutes of the Footloose remake a while back, and I guess the moment that triggers the town’s dancing ban is a party back in the 80’s where the kids are dancing to the original Kenny Loggins song, then there’s a drunk driving tragedy of some sort.

I didn’t finish watching the movie, but I always felt that this makes the so-called remake an actual sequel to the original, and that all the kids from the first movie died in a Final Destination-type superwreck.